The previous year, deforestation had already fallen by 11%, but that reduction was not uniform across all of Brazil’s biomes — ecosystems defined by distinct climate, vegetation, flora and fauna.

Brazilian prosecutors are seeking to annul a $180 million carbon offset scheme supporting conservation of the Amazon ...

Food firms are inflating their climate targets with carbon removals and weak deforestation claims, according to a report from ...

Speaking on her porch by the Negro River, Borges said her company, Yara Amazonas, started a partnership with loggers to extract oils and seeds from the forest, instead of cutting trees down. "The ...

A landscape of high tariffs increases the challenges of adapting to climate change, slowing the pace of the transformations ...

The new rules, considered unconstitutional by experts, would benefit around 80% of the ventures with a self-licensing process ...

Two decades later, the legend of mokele-mbembe remains alive, whispered in villages and embellished with each new “sighting,” and Abong’o says deforestation is the reason why. The Congo ...

Sebastião Salgado, the celebrated Brazilian photographer whose powerful black-and-white images captured the dignity of human ...

Following the death of Sebastião Salgado, we look back at Genesis, the Franco-Brazilian's global exhibition that paid tribute ...

Legendary Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, famed for his powerful black-and-white images of human suffering and ...

In recent years, the real progress has been outside the rooms where the high-level official U.N. negotiations are held.

The concession permits the sustainable use of timber and non-timber resources, such as roundwood, heart of palm, açaí, Brazil ...